Senior Controller | Project Controlling | Business & Program Management

• Initiate Program after business award by customer
• Program Setup (tooling, processes, budget, internal approvals, rebase business case) 
• Setup development and Project team including external resources on a large scale
• define work split (SOW) between different development sites
• initiate requirement elicitation
• align system architecture with customer
• source crucial Tier 2 suppliers 
• align milestones and feature content with customer
• align software architecture and software framework with customer
• initiate development
• initiate and control change management
• chair internal steering and sync meeting
• interface to customer on working and management level

• Leading RFQ from 1st quote to business award
• Program Setup (tooling, processes, budget, internal approvals, business case) 
• Setup development and Project team including external resources
• complete requirement elicitation
• align system architecture with customer
• source all Tier 2 suppliers including SW suppliers 
• align milestones and feature content with customer
• align feature ramp up with customer
• initiate development
• initiate and control change management
• interface to customer on working and management level
• chair internal steering and sync meeting
• maintain and update business case including prediction of overall engineering costs
• negotiate Engineering efforts for CRs with customer  
• ensure  smooth transition to fellow PM

• build up sales back-office team with 11 employees from scratch and take on responsibility from discontinued company branch
• Introducing C-Sox compliance and attend annual assessments with KPMG and internal control
• Ensuring smooth ERP system transition to SAP within the domain Sales
• Initiated Cost down program with the result of 92mEUR cost improvements for a VW Group program
• Calculate Life time cloud costs for a hybrid navigation system

• Creation of toolchain to calculate business cases and production costs
• Tendering program calculation starting from RFQ to project award for a program with a turnover of 1 billion EUR (VW Group)
• Presenting calculation towards Roland Berger and Commerzbank as crucial element during Company take over negotiations
• Responsible of total business case calculation including production costs for various OEM RFQs

Project Management product development from project start to start of serial production

• Steering the developments teams software, hardware and mechanics
• Generated and maintained project planning
• Project and progress controlling
• Defined KPIs to measure project progress
• Undertake regular project meetings and reviews
• Control tier 2 suppliers
• Generate requirement specifications
• Work out and negotiate SOWs
• Plan and predict failure inflow and outflow curves
• Interface to the customer on all levels
• Carry out PPAP process acc. VDA
• Participate and represent the project on escalation meetings, particular in difficult project situations

• Steering the development teams
• Interface to the customer on all communication levels
• Generate functional specifications
• Control tier 2 suppliers
• Generate and maintain project planning
• Project and progress controlling
• Carry out PPAP process acc. VDA

• PMST Leader and Function Owner for an Auto Start Stop System
• Technical project lead
• chair PMST Meetings and Design Reviews with Senior Management
• coordinate different departments
• create project and verification planning
• create and roll out design requirements
• trouble shouting in difficult project situations

• Project Engineer – Keyless- Entry und Start System
• Calculate Business Cases
• Responsible for system specification, implementation and verification
• Generate requirement documents
• Create and maintain project planning
• CAD packaging studies